Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toynbee makes the point that historians share with Christians the sin of selfcenteredness-a result of spiritual pride. He considers it an intellectual as well as a moral error, "because no living creature has a right to act as if it were the center of the Universe...
...Republican of later vintage, looked to the less distant past. "Mr. Truman," said he, added to Chicago's "enlightenment of the day by declaring that Mr. Stevenson could not win. Then he went further. He solemnly warned the country that it should not risk a trial-and-error Administration under Mr. Stevenson ... I should say this-that the nation is indebted to Mr. Truman for this involuntary lapse into objectivity...
...much too early to say whether this will be effective in winning the independent middle-ground vote which went in large numbers for the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket four years ago. But to call the Republican managers the "Old Guard," is a major error...
...Humor & Error. Caught with dead time on their hands, the reporters just let the pundits talk (complained ABC's Martin Agronsky: "There's no fight here and I'm not going to make one"). ABC lined up an able but monotonous panel of experts: Author Quincy (The World We Lost) Howe, Erwin Canham (Christian Science Monitor) and Ernest Lindley (Newsweek). CBS's Sevareid-Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings...
...cause resentment in others, but against the mounting crises in the world, I know that this convention must name a man who has the experience and the ability to act as President immediately upon assuming that office, without risking a period of costly and dangerous trial and error...